html form

[multitaskinman]

I'm using an html form in Chinese with charset gb2312. I have tested it a number of times (& from different computers) without problems but recently have been receiving many blank forms even though name, No and email address area validated.

Could this be triggered by a spider or robot?

Thanks

multitaskinman

[navaldesign]

Re: html form

If you have the fields validated through the built in validation tools, two things may be happening:

1. Your validation doesn't work. Typical for forms which names contains whitespaces or symbols. It should be a name like "contactform" or "contact_form". Underscores are allowed.

2. You are receiving either spam bot submissions or manual spam submissions by someone that has Javascript disabled on his computer.

It can't be a spider because when a spider visits your page, it doesn't actually "submit", it only opens the page, so no submission takes place.

[multitaskinman]

Re: html form

Excellent,

Thanks for your reply. I checked the name field names, but they look ok. So it looks like it's spam.

Thanks!

multitaskinman

[navaldesign]

Re: html form

Not the fields names, the FORM name can break the Javascript validation if it contains whitespaces or symbols.